Marsala
Wines for romantics
Henry Jeffreys enjoys the heady pleasure of fine marsala
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Britain was not built on slavery and imperialism
At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Hero of the hour
Giles Watling asked the question that was on nobody’s lips, as he rushed to the Prime Minister’s rescue
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
